KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 30:8–10
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Job 30:8
8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
8 They were children of fooles, yea children of †base men: they were viler then the earth.
- Heb. men of no name.
Job 30:9
9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
9*And now am I their song, yea I am their by-word.
- Psal. 35.15. and 69.12.
Job 30:10
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
10They abhorre me, they flee farre from me, †and spare not to spit in my face.
- Heb. and withhold not spittle from my face.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:8
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons lacking wisdom or sound judgment, especially in moral or spiritual conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Low in place, rank, condition, or character; also a foundation or lower supporting part.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
More base, shameful, contemptible, or dishonourable.
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The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:9
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A common saying or proverb, often one expressing reproach.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 30:10
To hate extremely, detest, reject, or regard with loathing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To run or hasten away, especially from danger or expected evil.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To refrain from harming, punishing, using, or destroying; to save, preserve, allow, or use frugally.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To eject saliva, often upon the person named in the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study22Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
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Open the full verse study6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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Open the full verse study18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
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Open the full verse study4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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Open the full verse study24And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
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Open the full verse study22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Open the full verse study7¶ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Open the full verse study3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.
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Open the full verse study18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study27And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
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Open the full verse study4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
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Open the full verse study10For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
12Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
13This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Open the full verse study63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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Open the full verse study14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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Open the full verse study4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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Open the full verse study15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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Open the full verse study11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
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Open the full verse study14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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Open the full verse study67Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
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Open the full verse study14¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
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Open the full verse study8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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Open the full verse study9Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
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Open the full verse study30And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
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Open the full verse study6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Open the full verse study13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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Open the full verse study19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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Open the full verse study6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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Open the full verse study56But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
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Open the full verse study7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
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Open the full verse study8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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